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Summarization- Important Notes to Remember!

• Heidegger՚s chief concern is not with how a particular thing/entity X (table, chair etc.) is related to another thing Y, but how the meaning of a particular thing and its relation with other things get determined at all.
• In other words, Heidegger asks this question – what does it mean for a thing (x, y, etc.) to be. This is ontology or the study of being and is different from the ontic relationality between things.
• In Aristotle we find the idea of ontology as…

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Martin Heidegger

• One of the greatest philosophers of the 20^th century
• Major work: being and time
• An existentialist as well as a phenomenologist. So that is why his way is called existential phenomenology.

The question of being is the subject matter of Heidegger՚s ‘being and time. ’

• Like the ancient Greek philosophers, we should wonder at what it means to be. We overlooked those things and opted on ‘what the being knows’
• Phenomenology, for Heidegger, is derived from the Greek verb ‘to show itself. ’ So ‘the meaning of the…

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